"Whew!"
The whistling sound of the wind brushed past his ears and his skin, bringing him a refreshing feeling.
Feeling the refreshing wind, Rozen keenly sensed that something was amiss.
That was also a very natural thing.
Now, the wind that passed by his ears and skin didn't actually exist, but NERvGear directly transmitted the refreshing and comfortable feeling of the wind to his brain. It was natural that it was a little strange.
However, these Xu's inconsistencies just happened to inform Rozen.
Online.
SAO for short.
"I'm back!"
Rozen opened his eyes.
What appeared in front of him was a magnificent chalk town.
At this time, So Rozen was on a vast square in the center of this chalk town.
This place was paved with vast stone slabs and was surrounded by trees. The streets were filled with a medieval style. In the distance ahead, there was a huge palace that emitted a black light.
Rozen, who had participated in the closed beta test, naturally knew that it was a palace called the Black Iron Palace.
In this world, once a player died, he or she would be resurrected in the palace and get the chance to challenge this world again.
The square where Rozen was located was the starting point of the game — the Town of Beginnings.
Right at this moment …
Clang!
Clang!
Along with a series of flashes, several figures appeared in the central square of the Town of Beginnings where Rozen was.
Every one of them had delicate features and wore all sorts of equipment. Even their hair colors were different. The only thing they had in common was that they didn't look like people in real life. The men were all handsome, and the women were all beauties. Not a single one of them was less than 90 points in terms of appearance.
Naturally, that was because these virtual bodies didn't look like the players themselves, but the appearance of the characters that were set up.
Even Rozen was the same. His appearance, which was similar to that of a mixed-race child, became the kind of wise military counselor often seen in fantasy games. He was no longer wearing ordinary casual clothes, but cloth clothes that made it easy for him to move around.
Under such circumstances, Rozen was greeted with cheers from all the Players present.
"Is this the world of SAO?"
"So, this is the first floor of the floating city Aincrad mentioned in the advertisement?"
"Oh no, I'm so touched!"
The players cheered excitedly, causing the entire Central Plaza to be in an uproar.
Of course, among them, there were also players who suppressed their excitement and scattered in all directions of the town.
Among those players, there must be some who, like Rozen, got the quota that was limited to a thousand players, and they knew what to do next. In order to level up as soon as possible, they rushed to the weapon shop, armor shop, item shop, and even grocery store to buy the items needed for the adventure, and then rushed to various places in their memory to pick up quests with rich rewards, or to look for hidden treasure chests.
To be honest, Rozen also wanted to hurry to the place he wanted to go.
However, before that, he still had to meet up with Kazuo first.
So …
"Bang!"
With a powerful stomp, Rozen's figure flew out.
That was a running speed that he couldn't believe in real life.
Due to the magic circuit being too good, the converted vitality was too large, which led to his weak physique. Rozen never dared to run so casually in the real world.
Even if he had the Body Hardening skill that could enhance his physical ability, his running speed couldn't even reach this speed in real life, right?
"This is the advantage of having a virtual body!"
Rozen was in a happy mood while enjoying the speed of running in real life.
His current body was just an imaginary virtual body created by the game character, not his real body, so Rozan Can could run in the streets of the Town of Beginnings without any scruples. That was one of the reasons why Rozen was fascinated by this world.
Rozen entered the streets of the Town of Beginnings.
There were shops and buildings all around. Sometimes, the shouts of shop owners could be heard, and sometimes, the sounds of children playing could be heard. There were even sounds of smithing, slashing, and colliding, rendering the entire Town of Beginnings like an adventurer's town. It had the atmosphere of an RPG game.
At the same time, people wearing medieval clothing and equipment were also laughing while passing by Rozen. It was quite lively.
However, whether it was the shop owner, the children in the building, or the pedestrians passing by Rozen, they were just NPCs in this world.
They looked very realistic, but in fact, their action and conversation patterns were fixed. Unless they triggered a quest or found a question that they were set to answer, they would always say "I can't answer this question" or something like that, and they would not change their actions and behavior.
Rozen ignored the shouting of the shop owners and the laughter of the pedestrians around him and rushed into an alley like a gust of wind.
Then, Rozan Can stopped.
Because there was already a person waiting for him here.
"You're too slow."
The person who said this was a boy wearing simple cloth clothes similar to Rozen's, but outside, he was equipped with leather.
The boy was different from Rozen's character, who had the feeling of a wise man. His appearance was like a hero, and the scene of him leaning against the wall with his hands crossed was inexplicably handsome, and the smile on his face was also very cool.
Facing such a handsome Brave Warrior …
"Kazuto, what are you trying to act cool for?"
Rozen mercilessly exposed the other's trick.
"Ahem …!"
Kazuto immediately staggered.
The hero in front of him was Kazuto Kirito.
So Rozen stared at him.
What appeared in front of him was a green buoy floating above Kazuto's head.
This was a colored buoy, used to show the existence of the target individual.
Green buoys were player buoys, yellow buoys were NPC buoys, red buoys were monster buoys, and orange buoys were buoys that violated the command of a crime, such as initiating a PK.
Now, the buoys that appeared in front of Rozen's eyes were naturally green, which represented an innocent player, and next to it was a long green bar.
That was the target's hp bar.
The buoys that showed the character's status and hp bar.
This was the general status that the players could see.
If you wanted to see more information about the target, such as name, level, location, and so on, you had to log in as friends or form a party.
That was why Rozen came to meet up with Kazuto.
"Okay, hurry up and log in as friends, then we'll go our separate ways. We'll contact each other when we're leveling up in the training area or the labyrinth area."
Rozen said decisively, then immediately took a step back, stretched out the index and middle fingers of his right hand, raised them together, and then waved them down.
This was the action of calling out the main menu.
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